# personal union

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. The situation of two or more states sharing the same monarch, usually also with shared dynastic succession.
2. Hypostatic union; the union of Christ's humanity and divinity in one individual existence (person).

## Etymology
In the political sense, calque of German persönliche Vereinigung (attributed to German jurist Johann Stephan Pütter, 1777).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/personal-union